When police stormed homes across nine provinces on the night of Oct. 9, 2025, it marked more than just another chapter in China’s decades-long persecution of faith. It was the beginning of what human-rights observers are now calling the most sweeping coordinated crackdown on Christianity since the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. The target: Beijing’s Zion House Church, the largest and most influential urban house church network in China’s modern history.
